Preschooler Oysters

 

You know how it’s important for a parent to mess with her kid, just to make sure he’s ready for the Whac-A-Mole game that is middle school?

I do; therefore, I view every day as a “mess-’em-up-early-and-hard” opportunity.

Case in point:

While the Wee Niblet still has affection for his Pokemon cards and is always game for a Yu-Gi-Oh duel, he’s recently expanded his faux-manga-based-consumer-merchandising passions into Bakugan territory, as well.

Pretty much, Niblet is hot for Bakugan’s balls.

Admit it. They’re strangely attractive, weirdly soothing, these balls. You want to cradle them in your palm, don’t you?

Don’t be coy. One glimpse, and you can sense they give good hand.

If you don’t believe your own impulses, you can believe Niblet. He’s an expert in holding little balls, and he finds the Bakugan Battle Brawler balls very satisfying.

In fact, he is so enchanted with them that he keeps the Bakugan brawlers in his pockets, where he can massage them, roll them, and tweak them.

Even better, I like to get him talking about what he’s doing: “Hey, kid, whatcha got there in your pocket?”

“My widdle balls.”

“Yea? Whatcha doing with them, toots?”

“Feeling them. I like feeling my widdle balls.”

Then I let about three minutes pass before asking, “So, buddy, you seem to be touching something in your pants there. What’re you doing?”

“Mom, you know I wuv my widdle balls. I’m playing with my widdle balls.”

Next mission: get him to explicate, with great volume (“EEEH? Cain’t hear ya, kid. Speak up!”), at the mall, about what he’s got in his pockets. I may enhance this activity by having him take along the Bakugan wrist-shooter, into which the brawler balls can be inserted and then ejected. There we’d be, in front of the Eddie Bauer store, me asking, “Whatcha doing now, poodle?”–and him answering, “Just making my widdle balls shoot out.”

After the tortures of Mommy Boot Camp, middle school is, in comparison, going to feel like an easy stroke of the tool.

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34 responses to “Preschooler Oysters”

  1. cathy Avatar
    cathy

    Priceless, and a quick read too. LOL.

  2. liv Avatar
    liv

    you’re a naughty gal. i’ll be happy transformers stop living in my house.

  3. Glamourpuss Avatar
    Glamourpuss

    You’ve got style, Jocelyn. Can you find him anything more sausage shaped? Just a thought.

    Puss

  4. citizen of the world Avatar
    citizen of the world

    Someday that kid is going to be paying me to talk about this.

  5. Say It Avatar
    Say It

    bwahahahahaha! widdle balls!

    Now, what are you going to do when he’s 12 or 13 thinking its JUST FINE to pway with his widdle bwalls in public? hehehehehehehehehe.

  6. Her Grace Avatar
    Her Grace

    You’re going to pay when he reads this someday, you realize.

    I, for one, think it was worth it.

  7. flutter Avatar
    flutter

    You know…

    No, I mean you know.

  8. Casdok Avatar
    Casdok

    How funny!!

  9. chelle Avatar
    chelle

    hahaha!
    Good to read that we are not the only parents torturing our children in preparation 😛

  10. Calamity Jane Avatar
    Calamity Jane

    There are 3 of them …?

  11. August Avatar
    August

    I’ll have you know I’m the Whac-a-Mole world champion. Although, in Middle School I was the mole.

    As for the widdle balls, I’m not going there. Must he be so darn cute?

    August

  12. lime Avatar
    lime

    again, i am left to ponder the havoc we could create if we were ever to meet face to face. bwahahahahaha!!!!

  13. Jazz Avatar
    Jazz

    Bwwahahahaah…

    I’m always amazed at all these toys that exist. Not having kids just leaves you totally clueless.

  14. furiousBall Avatar
    furiousBall

    you know originally, “Hot for Teacher” was actually penned as “Hot for Bakugan’s Balls” someone from the record label came in during recording and voiced their concern that not enough American consumers would get the reference to the then uninvented toy.

  15. Diana Avatar
    Diana

    Heh, heh, heh. Don’t tell me you’ll be surprised when you end up in the stinky, urine and canned peas smelling old folks home in a few decades.

    Then we’ll see who ends up holllering about ‘widdle balls’ to all and sundry.

    (Of course, I’m still taking notes from you.)

  16. Maggie Avatar
    Maggie

    That is so wrong, it is just right.

  17. Lone Grey Squirrel Avatar
    Lone Grey Squirrel

    As an occasional baby-sitter, I take great delight in warping little minds but I never realised that parents did it to their own kids!

  18. Dorky Dad Avatar
    Dorky Dad

    That’s funny, but you know that it’s going the medical bills for his therapy are going to cost you.

  19. kimber the wolfgrrrl Avatar
    kimber the wolfgrrrl

    Laugh. Out. Loud. 😀

  20. Spider Girl Avatar
    Spider Girl

    You’re a little bit evil, but just SO FUNNY too!

    And besides, playing with balls can be very therapeutic.

  21. choochoo Avatar
    choochoo

    LOL

    My mum always said that “we’ll talk about it when we get home” when I brought up stuff like that. You know, when I was little.

  22. Claudia Avatar
    Claudia

    Bwuahahahahahahaha!!! Nice. NICE!!! It’s the only real joy you know, we parents get sometimes….;)

  23. Pendullum Avatar
    Pendullum

    You rock Jocelyn…

  24. Franki Avatar
    Franki

    My roommate’s son got a text message from one of his girlfriends during Christmas break. It read:

    I’m playing with my brother’s wii. It’s not as hard as I thought.

    They’re 15, so chances are you’ll be able to continue to use your kids for Beevis and Butthead moments for many years to come.

  25. Wendy Avatar
    Wendy

    Get all that on tape and you have a good blackmail material for the teen years.

  26. Minnesota Matron Avatar
    Minnesota Matron

    Naughty girl. I need to sick you on the Other Mother in today’s blog post. Pretty please?

  27. Dorky Dad Avatar
    Dorky Dad

    So Joc, I kind-of, sort-of tagged you on my blog. Kind of.

  28. Claire Avatar
    Claire

    OMG, Niblet should never ever read this post or you may have to use his college fund to pay his therapy bills!

  29. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    The things we do to prepare ’em for adolescence. You go, girl.

  30. pistols at dawn Avatar
    pistols at dawn

    Wow. I used to have those same comments, only we couldn’t afford any toys. We had to drive several counties away to get groceries.

  31. Princess Pointful Avatar
    Princess Pointful

    I’m glad that it is still appropriate to use one’s own children for comic value!

  32. Anonymous Avatar
    Anonymous

    what are you doing massaging your bakugan you lesbian

  33. JAYman Avatar
    JAYman

    why the fuck are you calling someone a lesbian.

  34. JAYman Avatar
    JAYman

    why the fuck are you calling someone a lesbian.

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